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    The Room Problem 
  • Where did Cat sleep before her Nona moved out and Sam moved in? #BabysitterWar made a pretty big point out of the fact that there's only one bedroom with one bed in it, but in #Pilot Cat didn't sleep on the couch (until she decided to, for Sam), so there was at least another bed.
    • Cat probably slept on the couch before, but wanted to give it to Sam for the night as a show of hospitality.

    Toddler Climbing 
  • In the episode "#ToddlerClimbing", how would the toddlers climbing be shot? It's essentially the equivalent of rock climbing, which no toddler could do.
    • They may have shot them from a normal POV to a point, before turning the wall horizontal and having them climb that. Either that, or Dan knows an SFX team who knows how to edit out the wiring.
    • The way they shot the toddlers climbing is explained on the show's website, samandcat.com: more specifically, their Lil' Sam & Cat Show, where they show some behind the scenes footage for each episode of the show... The one for Toddler Climbing is here: http://samandcat.nick.com/lil-sam-and-cat-show/the-lil-sam-cat-show-toddler-climbing.

    Lumpatious 
  • In the episode "#Lumpatious", Sam and Cat need to prove "lumpatious" is a word to win a bet. After finding out it's not real, they go to Oxnard to have the word put in their dictionary. The "Word Keepers" will only put the word in the dictionary if a famous person says it. The next half of the episode has Sam and Cat trying to find someone famous to say the word. But they already know a famous person: Sam herself. Did they forget that she was the co-star of a web series that was popular worldwide?

    Cat In the Box 
  • In "#Stuck In A Box", Cat gets trapped in Dice's "magical" box for over a day and only breathes through...a tube. How the heck does she even have enough air to survive? And how does she eat/drink? Also, when did they pick her up (in the end she falls off the car)
    • It's shown that the small hole allows for ventilation, and she drinks through the same tube. The gang probably retraced their steps with the car to find her again.
      • But that being said, how did she ACTUALLY get out?

    Babysitting Commercial 
  • In "#BabysittingCommercial", near the tail end of the titular commercial there's a disclaimer that says, among other things, that all the children in the commercial are paid actors. During another part of the commercial there's a sequence of children saying how great their Babysitting was and then the last kid going "ENGH!" or some other unsatisfied, sour grunting noise. Why would Sam & Cat pay him to do that? In-Universe Rule of Funny for the commercial?
    • Throw It In!? Either that, or the duo are too lazy to get the kid to redo the scene or edit it out.
      • Yeah, those seem like pretty plausible explanations. ESPECIALLY the laziness one if Sam was calling the shots (which she probably was).

    Freddie and Buttocks 
  • Is Freddie just ashamed of the word "buttocks", but not the word "butt"? In "#TheKillerTunaJump", Freddie tells Cat that he has never said "buttocks" in front of a girl before, and while that may technically be true, there was a conversation in iCarly that involved Sam saying, "Guess what I have?", and Freddie responding, "Pimples on your butt." Freddie doesn't look the least bit ashamed after saying this.note  So why would he be ashamed of the full word but not the shortened version, especially if he's using the the full word in a purely medical sense, while using the shortened version to outright insult a girl?
    • People hold themselves to higher standards in terms of manners as they get older usually. Though it's more likely just a Series Continuity Error.
    • Freddie probably doesn't see Sam as a girl.

    Sam and Hugging 
  • Why does Sam not like to be hugged anymore (i.e. Cat LOVES to hug and comes REAL close to Sam), while in iCarly she didn't mind being hugged by Carly? Is there a possibility that this is a Series Continuity Error or has a deeper meaning in that it reminds her of Carly and she still misses her?
    • Carly and Sam were friends for a long time, whereas Sam and Cat have only met very recently. It can be noted that she was never one for touching when it came to the other characters in iCarly.
    • On a side note, the case with Cat becomes even odder when you consider that Sam hugs Goomer and Dice sometimes without complaining.

    What is With the Clown? 
  • Has anyone noticed that weird clown that keeps showing up in every episode?

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